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"You ought to have remained on board, sir, and made me over the command on the quarter-deck." Dodd replied politely that it would have been more formal. "Suppose I return immediately, and man the side for you: and then you board her, say, in half-an-hour?" "I shall come when I like," replied Robarts crustily. "And when will you like to come?" inquired Dodd, with imperturbable good-humour.
"Well, I admit you were a little upsetting, at times," retorted that individual, with something of his old imperturbable rudeness. "Nonsense!" cut in William, sharply. "You were never anything but a comfort in the house, Billy, my dear and you never will be." "Thank you," murmured Billy, demurely.
Those are French geraniums very hard to get. They're double, you see, and don't look like the scrawny things you see in this country. I'll ask my secretary what I paid for that plant. Is that dinner, Waters? Come right in, gentlemen, we won't wait for ceremony." Whereupon the delegation would file into the dining room in solemn silence behind the imperturbable Waters, with dubious glances at Mr.
Had Collinson been an observant man, he would have noticed that the two men dropped their eyes and moved their feet with a half impatient, perfunctory air of waiting. Had he witnessed the stage-robbery, he would have recognized in the smooth-faced man the presence of "the orator." But he only gazed at him with his dull, imperturbable patience.
"I'll bet you twenty pounds against your five-pound note, if you dare put it down." By this time Storm was standing up, quivering with excitement, his cards tightly clenched in his hand. The gambler sat opposite him calm and imperturbable. "What have you got?" said Storm. "I called you," said the gambler, "show your hand." "Yes; but when I called you, you asked me what I had, and I told you.
His features were sharp and lean as was his body, and wore every appearance of a cross-grained temper. He had been making divers complaints of divers persons, and the captain had hitherto appeared imperturbable. Captain Plumbton was an even-tempered man, who was satisfied with a good dinner. Lieutenant Markitall was an odd-tempered man, who would quarrel with his bread and butter.
As she uttered that lie she was smiling and imperturbable; she played with her fan; but if any one had passed a hand down her back they would, perhaps, have found it moist. At that instant Auguste remembered the instructions of the vidame. "Then it was some one who strangely resembled you," he said, with a credulous air.
I am not going to relapse, Mark, said Martin; 'but, good Heaven, if we should be left in some wild part of this country without goods or money! 'Well, sir! replied the imperturbable Tapley; 'from what we've seen already, I don't know whether, under those circumstances, we shouldn't do better in the wild parts than in the tame ones.
"Wait," was the imperturbable answer, and the only one she could win from him. She was alive and well. He had found her. There was no cause for haste, nor had he ever hasted in his long life. The man who wastes his time in hurry loses all. He had found what he sought. This was the very pit, the forsaken shaft of which the padre told him. It led to what no other person dreamed.
It was enough to look at her and refresh his memory. She had been more than ever in his blood all these weeks. She was like water in a desert or sunlight to a man who comes up from a mine. He had found her again and he thanked whatever god he recognized for that, but he was forced to realize from her imperturbable coolness and unaffected ease that she was farther away from him than ever.
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